Tattoos, punks, and pool

[gordonzola]

This thread deserves a post of its own. What’s the worst tattoo you have? What’s the worst tattoo you’ve ever seen?

And what’s up with the Epicenter worst tattoo competition? I never heard about it. slanderous? arispurr? kittynitro? radcarrots? lapsed? Don’t hold out on me. I don’t remember that. Was it after my time there?

I remember holding an informal poll about my tattoo idea there. Young Emma or old Emma? I never got that tattoo because I decided I didn’t really want it, but I was thinking of it because I have never seen a man get a tattoo of a woman who was a public figure. I mean, you see guys sometimes with their heroes or whatever, but the only women you ever see on men are either relatives or some kind of stupid sexist shit. Then I decided that I didn’t really want a picture of another person on my body.

Cheese on the other hand…

Speaking of Epicenter, you know what one of my favorite moments was? The pool tournament. It was near the beginning back before anyone was hating on each other. We were playing on the totally warped and fucked-up table salvaged from the Verbal Abuse house. All the factions of punk were represented and had dressed up a little. Mohawks were gelled, gutter punks had a fresh drunk on, straight-edgers were tidy and boring-looking, crusties were extra shiny. Every time someone sank a shot people would applaud quietly and politely like it was a golf tournament. This drove Tim Yo crazy, which encouraged us to keep at it.

And to bring this full circle, that was the day after I got my first tattoo. Btw, I should have won the tournament but I eight-ball scratched.

Comments

[slanderous.livejournal.com]

I think the worst tattoo contest must have been after my time, although I'm trying to think of who could have won, had it been during my tenure at Epicenter.

I remember hearing about the pool tournament, which was before I got there, and how much the golf-clapping pissed off Tim Yo! But of course, it wasn't hard to piss him off, was it? :) Who won? Was it Christopher? (I know he won against Tait during their mini-tournament.) Wasn't the pool table wonky?

And who discovered that Scott from the Switchboard had painted the bottom of the table with some huge Satanic symbol?

On that note, I think Scott would have won for worst tattoo. Yikes.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Timojhen won.

and oh Scott... wait, wasn't it "Skot"? I forgot about his tattoo. refresh my memory, wasn't it one of those under-my-skin-I'm-really-a-machine ones?

that pool table was the wonkiest. In the tourney, the good players got eliminated first whereas those of us who just fucked around on the EZ table advanced.

[slanderous.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "Skot" had some scary Satan tattoos, but his "I'm a robot" tattoos were just super-crappy (faded, with the ink bleeding, et cetera). I don't remember the other ones exactly, but they frightened me.

Mattie once wanted to get a giant blue whale tattooed across her shoulders -- it would havbe amtched her dreds!

So far nothing I can remember beats the examples on the other thread (e.g., Jesus raping a nun?!). Though I did see one in a book in other day of a cat tattooed around a girl's pussy (ha ha), and I heard that some girl had "FASTER! HARDER!" tattooed above her ass crack.

[walktheplank.livejournal.com]

Though I did see one in a book in other day of a cat tattooed around a girl's pussy

We should try and set her up with the elephant man. (Same concept, with a "trunk.")

[slanderous.livejournal.com]

That's gross, dude. Who would want to have sex with that?!

[arispurr.livejournal.com]

totally funny because that's exactly the sitch at the queer youth center where i used to work - about the wonky pool table. but, of course, the youth still love it and it's pretty much in use all the time. /sigh/